Cher has a new album out and is launching a tour. She's even inccreased her visibility with TV appearances, including a Sept. 23 peformance on NBC's 'Today' show in New York.

Written by

Mikael Wood
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

Singing advice, Hollywood gossip, fashion tips: You'd go to Cher for many things, but detailed driving directions might not be one of them.

Yet on a recent evening in the back seat of a limousine traveling down Sunset Boulevard, that's precisely what she was providing to a chauffeur uncertain of how to get to Soho House in West Hollywood. A taping for next year's Academy Awards had gone long, and the singer was running late in rush-hour traffic for a party celebrating her new album. If this worried Cher, though, she wasn't showing it.